No thank you. That jumpshot from the free throw helps his case, but it just isn't enough. The guy's PER is consistently below 15. He actually brings nothing to the table for me unless he is super cheap. We can get better than his production for what he is worth.

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The Pistons only have 3 players on the team with PERs over 15:
Drummond- 20.4
Monroe- 18.4
Villanueva- 16.7

Maxiell has 1.0 win share through 19 games this year. That trends to 82/19 x 1.0 = 4.316 win shares for the season.

4.316 x $1.94M = $8.37M.

So, if Maxiell continues to play at the level that he's been playing at and he continues to get the same minutes per game for the rest of the season, then his "fair" salary would be $8.37M vs his actual salary of $5M. +$3.4M value.

For Charlie V, he has 0.2 WS, but he's only played in 9 games. That translates into 9 times his current WS, or 1.8 WS to be expected for a full season.

1.8 x $1.94M = $3.5M vs his current salary of $8.0M. ($4.5M) value.

The tough part is that Charlie has another year after this one, so the receiving team would have to absorb almost $9.0 in wasted value with him. They'd either have to get that in return by taking on a player who is outperforming his rookie contract or they'd have to have a different expected WS value for him.

They should drop the stock analogy because they are just basically saying who is doing well and who isn't. If this were real stock trading, they would have bought Apple stock this summer and they would have sold all their bank stock in 2010. The key is to buy the stock before the earnings hit.